The Notebooks for Anna Magdalena Bach 1722 and 1725

1722 And 1725 (Urtext - Paperback). Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. This edition follows the widely popular selection of pieces (often simply known as 'the” Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach) including all items except the technically more challenging French Suites and Partitas, which Bach later reworked and published separately. However, our new publication for the first time incorporates also the relevant items from the earlier book of 1722. It is these smaller and easier pieces in particular which vividly evoke everyday musical life in the Bach household, and which are ideally suited for music-making at home and for use in music teaching./ Répertoire / Piano

Following the acclaimed, award-winning publication of The Notebooks for Anna Magdalena Bach 1722 and 1725 (Best Edition 2020, German Music Publishers Association), Edition Peters is proud to present the Notebook for Wilhelm Friedemann Bach 1720 in a new premium Urtext edition by world-renowned Bach scholar Christoph Wolff.
Bach?s ?notebooks? provide a fascinating glimpse into the domestic music academy of the Bach family home. They contain original compositions, exercises, and model examples by other composers, all collected with a view to providing a rounded musical education to family members. The Notebook for Wilhelm Friedemann Bach was compiled for Johann Sebastian?s eldest son, who himself went on to become one of the leading organists, improvisers and composers of his day. The book contains systematic exercises, first or early versions of three of Bach?s most important keyboard cycles (some of the preludes from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Preambulums for the Two-part Inventions and Fantasias for the Three-part Sinfonias) and suites by Richter, Telemann and Stölzel among other items.
This luxury linen-bound edition with gold-embossed cover lettering is in line with the quality of the production of the much-praised Notebooks for Anna Magdalena Bach. It is produced in the original landscape format, ideal for use on a keyboard stand, and contains illustrations, premium-quality new engravings and full critical commentary.
This edition is the first new Urtext edition of the notebook in 60 years. It presents cutting-edge scholarship from the world?s leading Bach authority Professor Christoph Wolff including the most up to date research regarding attributions of authors and writers, new fragments brought to light by recently rediscovered manuscripts and the latest dating of sources.
New Urtext Edition of the Notebook for Wilhelm Friedemann Bach 1720 by Christoph Wolff
First new Urtext Edition for 60 years
Highest possible level of scholarship
Follows acclaimed publication of The Notebooks for Anna Magdalena Bach 1722 and 1725
Landscape format, optimal for piano and keyboard players
Premium linen binding
Bibliophile edition
Praise for The Notebooks for Anna Magdalena Bach:
?Every aspect of this edition screams quality; it is quite simply a thing of great beauty!? - Pianodao.com
?There are countless editions of the Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach. Edition Peters has now published a complete edition for the first time, containing the complete material from Bach's 1722 and 1725 notebooks. Christoph Wolff, renowned Bach specialist, professor at Harvard University and long-time director of the Bach Archive in Leipzig, is the editor of this bibliophile Urtext edition.
Bibliophile is the right term here [...] the publication shows the company?s deep connection to Bach in several ways. In addition to a foreword, the inside pages contain all piano pieces from Bach's books in a clean, very well-placed typesetting. Reproductions of Bach?s original manuscript make the bridge between the past and the present easy to understand. Close to the original and very beautifully realised, this Notebook is worthy of distinction.? - Deutsche Musikverleger-Verband (Best Edition 2020)
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Well known pieces from the notebooks by Johann Sebastian Bach for Anna Magdalena Bach; and by Leopold Mozart for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Arranged for beginners on the cello in the first position. All of the pieces have been selected and arranged by Alfred H. Bartles. The flexible arrangements allow all of the pieces to be played either as Cello solo Cello duet or Cello with Piano accompaniment.

This Notebook For Anna Madgalena Bach contains 20 short pieces that J.S.Bach presented to his second wife. This edition contains selections from the 1722 and 1725 notebooks featuring pieces composed byBach himself. Featuring Minuets Rondeaux Polonaises and Marches the Notebook For Anna Magdalena is both a collection of wonderful music and a fascinating insight into Bach'spersonal life and his relationship with his wife.